OpenOffice.org 3.3.0

Rated 50/50 by waggadee at Apr 22, 2010

Good performance and FREE Nothing much

Rated 40/50 by clayriggs at Apr 23, 2010

FREE product that works great! Does anything you need it to do. Why use anything else, unless your employer requires you to use a certain product. I have some trouble when playing with others, but that's not the program's fault. Everyone should have this on their harddrive and then we could all get along. Get it! Worth every penny, lol.

Rated 10/50 by rckrcwd5 at Apr 26, 2010

Free, documents versital, ok presentation builder. unstable for me, no built in envelope print option, seemed very unstable to me, thought I had a good download but out of the blue I had to restore part of the program twice within a week.

Rated 10/50 by mama_penny at Apr 26, 2010

nada, zip, nothing! 1) It crashes about 5 times a day. 2) If you continue saving your work and it crashes, when you open it back up many times it does not reflect your save. 3) When you send text documents in RTF format as an attachment, half of your bullets and numbers disappear and your paper looks like poo poo.Also when you send documents in RTF format as an attachment it auto indents and you don't even know it did because a) you saved it the way you thought it was going to look and b) it doesn't do it until after you send it. Go ahead and spend the money to get Microsoft or use 3.1 if you still have it because this is a horrible product. I contact customer service and make a crash report every time it crashes and they have only sent 2 auto replies for the 50+ reports I have sent. They don't care.

Rated 30/50 by 00mn at May 1, 2010

unknown to me Will not work with Windows 7 on my PC I downloaded this program. The next time I turned on my machine, my browser (Firefox) would not load from any source. Ran the trouble shooting tool to no avail. Uninstalled, restored and presto my browser was back and running just fine. I was attempting to run this on Windows 7 PC. It may work for laptops, but not my PC. Disappointed.

Rated 20/50 by 472alpha at May 2, 2010

User friendly Kept crashing after creating document. Reinstalled and repaired still crashed then my document would not open. I used this for almost a year it was working well. Then last week it kept crashing and I reinstalled and repaired it and still crashed and then it would not open my documents. I'm frustrated with it now and am looking for something else.

Rated 50/50 by SomeComputerGeekWannaBe at May 3, 2010

Free; Easy To Use; Looks Exactly Like Microsoft Office 2003 Fresh Boot May Be Slower This is a great program which has changed my life; i was about to go ahead and purchase Microsoft Office 2007 but however i stumbled upon this and it is fantastic! The Download For Me Was Really Fast, Through the installation i didnt have any problems which only took me about 8 minutes. This can save in .docx .doc .pptx .ppt .xls .xlsx wich is (2007 format) and so when i use this for school, everything can be opened and easily read.

Rated 10/50 by Vic002 at May 3, 2010

free, and....nothing else crappy interface, relativly short on Features compared to MS office Sucks. I'd pay $1000 for Microsoft Office just to get away from this

Rated 40/50 by CANDORICH at May 3, 2010

It works and it's priced right none yet...just a little slower than I'm used to....no biggie thoi Haven't used it too much yet....should fulfill my word processor requirements

Rated 10/50 by lloydp13 at May 4, 2010

It is a great idea. To have an option to MS Office. On a stand alone basis, it is some incredable software for free. Open Office is NOT compatable with many/most MS Office files. Expect to reformat everything and don't try exchanging files with and MS Office users. Once on your computer, it can be difficult to impossible to get off. For someone starting out new and does not share files with MS Office people, this is the way to go and would be my first choice in software. I doubt however there are many people like that... but who knows. Some have said Open Office is very compatiable to MS Offiice. That is a joke. I loaded it and found that I would have to reformat almost every MS Office file I ever want to use one by one... a totally impossible task. So I figure fine, it was worth a try, and tried to remove Open Office from my computer. Uninstall keeps telling me it is open and I can not remove it. Since it is not open I can't close it so I am stuff with the useless software on my computer. I am sure there is a techy solution here but that should not be necessary. For techies living in a bubble this might be some great software. For the rest of the world I don't think so.

Rated 50/50 by dmv146 at May 4, 2010

easy, fast, has the things I need import feature Its a good product, I works and feels a lot like office 2007 just doesn't have all the modugals that don't work together

Rated 50/50 by sharma1997 at May 6, 2010

Am a student and looking for a free office suite is not easy am happy i got this :) nothing is bad with this its like office suties what you pay for get it if you dont want to spend $600.00 on a office suite this is your end of your search

Rated 50/50 by kittenkat58 at May 6, 2010

I like the ease of sending & receiving I have not found any cons

Rated 40/50 by gcaleval at May 7, 2010

The value that you find in this software will depend heavily on your needs. If you are a business that requires outstanding wordprocessing software for clerks, quick and easy presentation building and mainstream spreadsheet work, OpenOffice will more than meet your needs. However the reservations some reviewers hold are not all off-base. The database component of OOo is not up to business-class database jobs. It handles small databases with ease and can connect with virtually any existing database files you have. For example a common use is to use OpenOffice Base to manage Thunderbird e-mail address books into more comprehensive client files. But it is not the equal of MS Access. If you have serious database needs you need to look at MySQL with a report writer. Also, if you genuinely need tight integration between your office suite and your e-mail program, OOo does not offer that. The fact that the e-mail, calendar and contact functions are all external programs highlights the limits of so-called "office suites." However, by comparison, even though MS Office has these functions in the same suite, they are not truly integrated any more effectively than OpenOffice and Thunderbird. For example, in neither package can you click on a contact in the address book, add an appointment in the calendar and attach the letter you just wrote in the wordprocessor. Wide is the gap between integrated office functions and the overkill of full blown CRM, but no one seems to see a need to bridge that gap. Still, if you have typical users on computers whose work consists of 80% word processing documents, OpenOffice is simply outstanding. It has many features that MS Word lacks, yet lacks nothing that MS Word has. Complaints about the spreadsheet, Calc, may or may not be on target as I have never had need to input complicated scientific formulae into my spreadsheets. More than 90% of typical business users will also not have such a need. If you do, then test it. The lack

Rated 50/50 by Orbiting235 at May 7, 2010

Fantastic software! Beware of reviews that stink and falsely bash this great program!

Rated 50/50 by 678beep54 at May 7, 2010

FREE. Provides all the functionality of Microsoft Office (ecluding Outlook) and allows files to be saved and converted to and from different file extensions. Easy to use help functions. I can not think of anything I do not like about Open Office. I have used this suite of programs since it's original version. I do not use but a very small perecntage of it's features and functions. I can not see paying a lot of money to buy MS Office when I do not need all the features and functions. Open Office is free, though donations are encouraged, and it provides much needed functions and features that are not included in Microsoft Works which is bundled with many PCs.

Rated 50/50 by wertlesnertle at May 7, 2010

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Rated 50/50 by Virtual_ManPL at May 8, 2010

5/5 - portable version of this pack is awesome ;)

Rated 30/50 by livecd at May 10, 2010

>Still, if you have typical users on computers whose work consists of 80% word processing documents, OpenOffice is simply outstanding. It has many features that MS Word lacks, yet lacks nothing that MS Word has. Sorry but Oo 3.2 versus MS-Office 2000, 2003 1/ is slow to start-up, try for instance to open 30 or 50 doc. 2/ as no good grammar checker even in English, German, French, Spanish and I am not speaking of other languages. 3/ toolbar's customisation is back to a Windows 3.11 interface 4/ I haven't look in bulk emailing or version control but I fear that it lacks of functionality.

Rated 50/50 by DudeBoyz at May 10, 2010

An increasingly capable and impressive alternative, especially for people having trouble with the new "ribbon interface" paradigm. Configuration is becoming less cryptic and more consistent across the suite, and the fact that it includes a solid functional database with ODBC support is impressive. Leaner and cleaner than many alternatives, and available for no cost to users. Well done.